cygwin quite mode install with non default packages

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

Top-posting reformatted - <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU>


> On 4/23/06, Larry Hall (Cygwin) <reply-to-list-only-lh <at> cygwin <dot> com> wrote:

Worse - <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>

>> shaick mohamed wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I need to install cygwin in quite mode with selecting few packages
>>> like unzip/zip (which by default won't be sected for install). Is
>>> there any way I can achive this.
>>>
>>> I tried by downloading the needed package, now the setup.ini has all
>>> the packages I want to install and the release folder contain all the
>>> binary files. But when I try to install from the local directory it is
>>> not installing the needed packages like unzip. So I run the setup.exe
>>> with interactive mode and found that again by default the unzip
>>> package is not marked for install. So Can somebody give light on this.
>>>
>>> Any short of help will be greatly appreciated.
>>
>> If I'm not mistaken, I believe the simplest and easiest way to do what
>> you want to do is to simply edit your local setup.ini to put the packages
>> you want into the "Base" category.  Everything in "Base" is automatically
>> installed.  There are other ways to achieve something similar, such as
>>
>> <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2006-04/msg00039.html>
>>
>> or
>>
>> <http://sources.redhat.com/cygwin-apps/package-server.html>
>>
>> But if you just want to do this once, editing the setup.ini file is probably
>> the easiest thing to do.
>>
>> --
>> Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
>> RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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>>
>shaick mohamed wrote:
> Hi Larry,
> 
> Thanks for the reply. It works... Also it installs the packages when I
> add the package in "misc" category.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shaick.
> 

Glad I could help.

-- 
Larry Hall                              http://www.rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9889 - FAX
Holliston, MA 01746

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